One person shot, boy arrested in New Year’s Eve brawl in Fargo – InForum

FARGO – One person was shot and a male juvenile was later arrested after a fight broke out at a New Year’s Eve party in south Fargo.

Fargo police were dispatched to multiple reports of a shooting in the 2500 block of 15th Street South on Tuesday at 10:31 p.m.

Officers learned that teens attending a party had started arguing in the hallway of the apartment building. A person from a neighboring unit tried to break up a fight between two boys in the hallway and was hit by gunfire, police said.

The unnamed shooting victim was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries; Three other unnamed victims were treated at the scene for non-life-threatening injuries from the fight.

The suspect fled the scene before officers arrived. The Greater Area Street Crimes Unit was called to assist and later located and arrested the juvenile suspect at his home in Glyndon, Minnesota at 3:22 a.m. The boy, who has not been named, is charged with aggravated assault with a firearm, police said.

Fargo police said no further information will be released at this time.

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